The Yarns of Time

Performance followed by workshop with Indian dancers

Celtic performance including poetry, dance and celtic music

Takes place at Goldsmiths, The University of London.

Performance and workshop of Lied composed with Zhenwan Li.

Programme Note

The poem, rich in natural symbolism, finds expression in a musical structure that reflects and reinforces the themes of the text inspired by the bracelet’s form. Many facets are evoked: openings and closures, freedom and containment, the sacred and the profane, the arc of life, stages in a journey. The blend of the vocal line and the piano texture, the use of dissonance and resonance, present a musical interpretation of the poem that is not intended simply to reflect but to, at times, collide or coalesce with the verse narrative in the subjective experience of a listener. The music, based on three intervals with pitches developed using different rotations, and the words conspire to inform the Lied with a sense of ambiguity and mystery.

Performances by local schools and Mimesis.